Hot and Dry OR Wet and Muddy Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia
By Gordon Patrick Samuel on 15-Aug-15. Waypoint GC61HHX

Another long trip around AU over the top end with lots of detours. Now heading back east across the Nullarbor with a stop at Maralinga, Ceduna, Lincoln National Park, Coober Pedy & Oodnadatta.TFTC. An excellent outback cache and landscape.

Great to make it to Oodnadatta, expecially as we hadn't planned it, just decided on a whim and followed the road out. A beautiful morning even early it's warm but nice. Great to explore town with the caches and see the sights. Conditions currently smooth and great! The day just kept giving, moon plain in the Gibber desert was a fascinating area to drive through, like something outer worldy with its rocky crystal covered surface, completely void of any plants. Back into Cooper Pedy to explore some more, crocodile Harry's bunker was a crazy character filled experience and worth the visit to see the eclectic home. Van collected, it was up the ladder at the welcome sign then off down the road heading south. After dinner at Glendambo, it was a free camp at Lake Hart after seeing The Ghan pass by shortly before.

**Wet and Muddy Adventure**The sky was overcast as Alex and Casey set out for their latest geocaching adventure. The cache, titled "Wet and Muddy," was hidden deep in the heart of the local forest, a place known for its tricky trails and unpredictable weather. The recent rain had turned the usually manageable paths into a muddy maze.Armed with raincoats, waterproof boots, and a GPS, the two friends trudged through the thick, slippery mud. Every step was a challenge as their boots sank deep into the muck, pulling free with a loud squelch. Despite the difficulty, they were determined to find the cache.They followed the GPS signal deeper into the woods, the canopy above providing some shelter from the light drizzle that had begun. The sound of rain tapping on leaves was a constant background melody as they navigated through the forest. The mud made it hard to move quickly, but they kept their spirits high, laughing and joking about the mess they were making.After nearly an hour of slogging through the mud, the GPS indicated they were close. The terrain became more challenging as they approached a small stream, swollen from the recent rains. The bridge that usually spanned the stream was under several inches of water. Not to be deterred, Alex and Casey decided to wade through, holding onto each other for balance.On the other side, they found themselves in a dense thicket. The GPS beeped, signaling they were within ten feet of the cache. Excitedly, they spread out, searching under logs and in the crooks of trees. Casey let out a triumphant shout as she pulled a muddy container from a hollow tree.They opened the cache, finding a logbook and a few trinkets. Despite being soaked and covered in mud, they felt a rush of accomplishment. They signed the logbook, adding a note about their muddy adventure, and carefully replaced the cache.As they made their way back, the rain began to let up, and a weak sun started to peek through the clouds. Alex and Casey laughed as they looked at each other, covered head to toe in mud, but with wide smiles on their faces. The Wet and Muddy cache had lived up to its name, and it was an adventure they would never forget.Come visit SA's longest running annual event -keep the Long weekend free- June 2025 Can't wait!!2492

On a 2 week family trip going through the simpson desert from south eastern victoria and grabbing some caches on the way .Out plans changed due to the rains so we needed to flip our route and start our desert crossing from dalhousie Springs and finish at birdsville.Now at birdsville we are stuck here due to all roads being closed for now.Anyway back to the cache.Nice stop while travelling Oodnadatta trackTFTC

You are right it wasnt far off the road and easy walking. Spectacular area. TFTC.

Found with SJG66, tyres at 30psi (usually 42psi) TFTC

Found with O319 on our way north

First time in Oodnadatta. Hot and dry today.Track from Marla is in great condition atm.Very isolated out here, just the way we like it.TFTC Gordon Patrick SamuelFind 7547 logged from cgeo:

TFTC, quick find! dropped some Disney cards

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On our travels we stopped to grab this cache an nice quick find and now off to the pub for lunch, thanks for placing this cache

TFTC. nice find. Passing through Oodnadatta, quick stop.

Found with Tubby Boo Boo and Mickyfam4. TFTC.

Traveling with friends when we found this cache in perfect weather conditions. tftc

On our way back from Dalhousie Springs and a quick stop, just to say today was neither Hot and Dry OR wet and Muddy, it was as Goldie Locks said "Just right" the weather was perfect and the cache easy to find. Travelling with TubbyBooBoo and JeffEddy

We got some beautiful sunset photos to send home from this spot. Log is signed and we left a swap for the geo kiddos. Time for a sleep and refresh for tomorrow’s drive. TFTC

Nice and quick. Heading to the springs!

This leg of the journey saw us head from Jamestown to Alice via the Oodnadatta Track and Dalhousie Springs. I only found a few of the caches each day as I want to save some for later on when we return.
Highlights was the Farina Bakery, beers at Marree, William Creek and Mt Dare hotels, Peake mining area, fishing at Algebuckina, swimming at Dalhousie (with dingoes howling in the night) and sharing Lamberts with hundreds of mice.. and the caches too!

Sandyofthesea and I took off from Perth at the start of April to travel more of Australia using geocaching as a guide to see the sights. How good is this country!!

Gordon Patrick Samuel, I found Hot and Dry OR Wet and Muddy today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC. Found with Algae ️we are on a road trip from Ballarat to Birdsville, off to the big red bash. Grabbing some smilies along the way in some towns. Saw a squirrel up a tree here…
First stop from Ballarat - Beaufort, Ararat, Great Western, Stawell, Underbool, Murrayville, time travelled and lost all our fruit and veg in the process..…… South Australia - Loxton, Worlds End, Mount Bryan, Orrorro, Parachilna, Coward Springs, William Creek, Oodnadatta ….. purple and yellow flowers in the dessert….and now onto the next.

Found this on our trip exploring the Oodnadatta Track

On our way north we stopped at this one. Quick find for the sharp eyed Janet. She is on a roll.
All good here.
TFTC yet again GPS

Found on yet another trip without crossing borders. Like many others overseas trips are on hold. Even interstate is hard to plan. So we are taking the time to explore and re-explore our home state of South Australia.

This trip is take 2 as our first attempt was clobbered 2 days in by a sudden lockdown meaning we had to turn back home again. Two weeks later and the geohounds are back at puppy holiday camp. Our plan is Hummocks Station, Willow Waters Gorge (brilliant!), Farina, and then the Oodnadatta Track to Algebuckina Bridge, then through to Eringa Waterhole and then on to Mt Dare. After that the likely path (assuming the NT border is open) is via Finke to Lambert’s Centre of Australia and then we will turn back south. We may drop into the Painted Desert on the way back and perhaps also take a side trip to see Lake Caddibarrawirracanna. We hope to find a few caches along the way and maybe hide a few as well. We are certainly having fun so far.

It is time to go back and actually log on line those caches for which we have only submitted draft logs. As our drafts have hit well over 200 we need to work through them.
While we may no longer remember the specifics of each event we are pretty sure we met and spoke with the usual subjects, and drank coffee, and chatted about geocaching and other stuff. We also quite possibly shared some hints about one or more of our own puzzles as we do get asked about these from time to time
As far as physical caches are concerned we remember all the puzzles, although some are harder than others [;] and mostly the hides.
As far as trads and multis are concerned we most often pick these up while traveling or at least while we are out and about for other reasons. Nearly always a bit of fun and good to break up a long trip.

Tftc nice town

A spot of geocaching whilst waiting for the clothes to wash!
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Nice to tick this one off on a pass through
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Found on our way to Dalhousie Springs, TFTC!

Found with Mosaikmum and Agelessone while on our holiday trip through Queensland and central Australia TFTC

Quick find as we left Oodnadatta on our outback Australia trip. TFTC

Easy find. With VK2RG, Mosaicmum. TFTC

Exploring Oz

Muggles again Aggh! Wont someone tell them to P off and mind their own business!! Having just done the Flinders Ranges leg of our Big Lap we are now making our way along the Oodnadatta track with the aim of visiting Australia lowest point and then across into the NT to the geographical centre of Australia before heading up the Stuart and into Alice for some more fun. Thanks for being one of the caches we found along the way. TFTC

04/04/2021 5:53:00 PM
One of many stops on the Oodnadatta Track as we journeyed from Arkaroola to Coober Pedy via Oodnadatta.
This one was a quick drive-by on our way out of town, where we checked out the pink road house and had an early dinner, the largest hamburgers I've ever seen, to enable more time for G&Ts at camp later.
Found with scouter 101.
Thanks for the stop and the hunt

A quick find before we head for Cadney. TFTC

A quick find as we travelled through on our way to the Simpson.
We might claim two smilies here? It was Both Hot and Dry as we approached the cache (temps averaging 36-38 this week) and Wet and Muddy as we left (local roadworks created more typical conditions for this time of year?
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Found this one just after having coffee at the Pink Roadhouse. TNLN. Thanks GPS for another find in the outback as we wander on our Covid escape.

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A stretch stop before pulling in to town for some munchies and see rail history display

Auf unserer Australientour gesucht und gefunden

Danke sagen HunttheHunters and Missy

Today we drove from Oodnadatta to William Creek, but first we picked up this cache!

Nice little spot to end a shitty road we’ve been on drop the care bear trackable in this one TFTC

Thankyou for the cache

Hot and dry today and not much to see, I'm sure my filling have come loose too. Anyway, we found the cache, signed the log and were back on the road again.

TFTC TNLN

We decided to have an early lunch in the Pink Roadhouse where we both *attempted* to consume the Oodnaburger (and trimmings) without success! Even though I tried to batter the burger beast flatter, the whole thing ended up disassembling itself into finger food! Luckily the burger and chips come in a high walled box which, while not at the pinnacle of culinary etiquette required for a Michelin Star rating, it served it's purpose for containing the extent of apocalyptic spread to within the walled confines of the aforementioned box!

After we had abandoned our gastronomic engorgement and admitted defeat we waddled back to car and set out to locate this cache before backtracking to the Kempe Rd turnoff to find the Ankata Painted Desert Rd. enroute to Arckaringa Station. (Did I say "Painted Desert **Road** "? If there is any "road" less deserving of the "road" tag then it's got to be the section from the Kempe Rd to Arckaringa Station! It's a real shocker!

TFTC

Found on a hot dry day. Grabbed geocoin!

[@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday. We took my jeep through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tju?a (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges. It was then time to turn around to head to South Australia, and in doing so, we visited the Palm Valley, and made the 4WD detour through Owen Springs Reserve (an excellent shortcut that wasn’t too technically difficult), calling into the Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia. Our final stop was Coober Pedy, and we really enjoyed checking out the various dugouts and mines.

Today, we continued our outback trip travelling from Oodnadatta along the Oodnadatta Track to Marla, and then on to Erldunda. This section of the Oodnadatta Track was probably the longest with minimal sights along the way, and the worst maintained with large sections of deep and wide corrugations. It was nice to arrive back at bitumen at Marla, and we then decided to visit Mintabie before the town ceased to exist. A deserted town indeed. We then continued along the main highway to enter the Northern Territory where our speed could be increased to 130 km/hr passing through Kulgera.

This was our first cache for the day, and didn't take long to find. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. I dropped a TB here for future travels. Thanks [@Gordon Patrick Samuel](http://coord.info/PRB5CD) for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

@Davidwazza and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday in the infamous black jeep. We took a route through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tju?a (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges, before heading home in a more direct route through Palm Valley, Owen Springs Reserve, Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia, and finally Coober Pedy.

Today, we continued our trip, from Oodnadatta, passing through Marla, Kulgera, the NT Border crossing, a quick detor through Mintabie, and ending our day in Erldunda!

TFTC!

Took a room at the pub instead of camping, took a quick run out to this one for an easy find.

After a bush camp under the Gidgee out near Mt Sarah Station under the stars, we found and signed log at 9:35am then headed for the comforts of the Pink Roadhouse. Most of Oodnadatta was looking neat and tidy today, except for the usual couple of house blocks in the centre of town! Thanks for the cache way out here GPS.

Quickly found while heading south. Tftc

Found at 2:49:00 PM. Heading South after our Northern escape dodging the cold weather. Great to find caravan accessible caches along the way.

Thanks Gordon Patrick Samuel.

Yet another reason to take a break on our trip. We soon found this one. Today we were able to drive straight to it. Thanks for placing the cache Gordon Patrick Samuel.

We are on a camping/4wd trip from Adelaide, slowly caching our way to Alice Springs.

Thanks for placing this cache for us.

Found while exploring the Binns Track. TFTC

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A quick find while on a night walk after a great feed at the pink roadhouse. TFTC.

Found with Zobo04 . We are on a little trip from Broken Hill to Cameron Corner to Lyndhurst up the Oodnadatta Track and finally finishing up at Ayres Rock. This is one of the caches we found along the way. Thanks for taking the time to place it. TFTC

Cache was found as part of a Simpson Desert trek by Team Waldron, Freddo, Featherwaite, E_Gregory1 and a couple of muggles.

After Coober Pedy it was off to Dalhousie Springs then across the desert to Birdsvaille south to Clayton Springs and then one last night in the Flinders.

A great trip and we even had time for a few caches.

Warm and dry for us.

TFTC

Tyres lowered to 25psi and travelling with ease. Just dry today.

Easter 2020 sees SA hosting the next Easter big event, GeoVenture 2020 at Millicent. GC82DAN. Check it out. We would love to see you there.

Found as part of an extended trip with FeatherWaite, Freddo, Team Waldron and a couple of non-caching friend that saw us travel from Adelaide to Coober Pedy, through the Painted Desert to Oodnadatta, then on to Dalhousie and Mount Dare, before crossing the Simpson Desert to Birdsville and then back down to Adelaide via Marree and the Flinders Ranges.

We had pretty good weather, with moderately warm days and cool nights, but plenty of flies!

It was great to be able to find some remote caches in some really interesting and scenic locations.

Thanks Gordon Patrick Samuel for the cache.

Found in the company of Freddo, e.gregory1, Team Waldron, occasional cacher out of retirement SteadyOn and muggle friend Tony during an awesome trip to the Simpson Desert, staying at Coober Pedy, then camping out at Dalhousie Springs, three nights in the Simpson Desert, Birdsville, Clayton Bore and Aroona Valley. Thanks for the cache Gordon Patrick Samuel!

Found It!
A quick find here. It was more cold and dry today...
TFTC

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No water here. Dust and flies.

Found with H423L on an epic trip up to find Pluto (GCG32B) - the furthest known planet at the time of TeamAstro's solar system inception. There was dust, flies, more dust, no mud and a million stars at night. There were no tyre issues. The geocaching led us to spectacular spots that were out of the way - and a few spots that were popular as it was the school holidays. We cached a few caches with others and it was good to see our friends on the trail.


Thanks to Gordon Patrick Samuel and **clear skies** from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

hot and dry today, ready for our journey to the springs

Found it tftc

The history in this region is so interesting. Thanks for highlighting this bit GPS!

Had a rest day here and found this treasure. Cheers.

This was a good walk from town, took detour via dam. Thanks Nathan

Another stop for us along the Oodnadatta track. TFTC

Sorry for the late log. Found travelling up the track to Mt Dare. Iconic Odnadatta! TFTC

he Big Western Australia trip in 2018. Day 41. After heading down the Stuart highway I turned off to take the Oodnatdatta track for a few days. I passed Oodnadatta and stopped the night at William creek.

Interesting as I pulled into Oodnadatta today is was a very pleasant temperature and it did not seem to have rained for a bit. At least the road was dry all the way from Marla to Maree. Lunchtime !

Thanks.

25393.3 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Gold Shuttle A#233

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Continuing the annual pilgrimage to the Supercars in Darwin grabbing caches on the way. TFTC.

We had a good camp last night at the free camp in town. This morning we called into the Pink Roadhouse for a feed and then saw the museum. All that was left was to find this cache and we were on our way.
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We pulled into Oodnadatta just after sunset last night. Lots of wildlife on the track in from Marla - Kangaroos, Emus, camels, cows and a large goanna. Glad to find this one in the morning.

Very hot and dry for us today. Made a quick find and we were on our way. TFTC

After the must have visit of Pink Roadhouse in Oodnadatta we went over to this cache. Once I arrived at GZ I was able to make the quick find.

The container and log are in good shape.
Then we went back to Oodnadatta and then heading William Creek.

Thanks for the cache says **Poparni**

Greetings from [Mystery-Matrix Mölln](http://www.geocaching.com/map/?ll=53.62831,10.65253&z=15) (Germany) !!! #6948

You can also have a look at my [Poparni-2018-TB](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=5850221)

WHOOPS! I'm logging about 100-200 or so caches like 3 months after the trip that we found them on! Completely forgot to log these but I did not forget the trip! Found this cache along with many others on an adventure around the red centre. Along this adventure we visited and explored many phenomenal and surreal places such as Woomera, Coober Pedy, Uluru and Mutitjulu, Kata Tjuta, Wattarka, Tnorala, Both East and West Macdonnell ranges, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Parts of the Finke road, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Oodnadatta track, Mount Dare, Dalhousie Springs, Painted Desert, Moon plane and I'm sure I've missed a few! Thank you so much for the cache. Found with Ferociousflea and -Beaker- along with our mint 79 series that accomplished alot in this two week time frame.
TFTC

Found during our Red Centre adventures that included Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Tnorala, West Macs, East Macs, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Mt Dare, Dalhousie, the Painted Desert and many other fantastic spots!! Travelled and cached with FerociousFlea and Astronaut99.

Nice and quick find before a nice hot plate of chips at the Pink Roadhouse
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on a Red Centre Roadtrip Adventure... Thanks

All ok took a trinket left a YoYo all ok TFTC

found on our central trip
left trinkets
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Picked this cache up on the way out of Oodnadatta. Dry & cold today but no flies yet. TFTC

Today we are travelling from Hawker to Leigh Creek and the clouds look like they are lifting so hopefully we will drive out of the rain today picking up a cache of two along the way in this scenic area.

As we have said before we really enjoyed our trip along the Oodnadatta Track reminiscing over our last trip over 30 years ago. We stopped at the infamous Pink Roadhouse and fueled up at $2.00 a litre (wish the fuel prices were the same as our last trip) before heading out to find this one before doing a u-turn to head back to the painted desert.

The cache was a nice easy find right where the GPSr was pointing and our names were soon added to the log,
Thanks once more Gordon Patrick Samuel for the cache.

TFTC it was a quick find along our way home.

Early morning cache, very windy today as we set off for next leg of the journey home after the event. Tftc

Todays travels took us from Mt Dare Station, alongside the Old Ghan Railway to Dalhousie Springs, Dalhousie Ruins, Pedirka Siding to Oodnadatta and everything along the way and in between. The day had been quite hot and sunny, and now the clouds were beginning to close in and get darker. We found the cache, signed the log and headed toward the local Caravan Park to get settled for the night. We just got the everything into the cabin and the heavens opened. Great timing It was here that we discovered the 24 pack of ciders in glass bottles we'd purchased yesterday hadn't enjoyed the track as much as I did. The GeoPatrol had a rather Fermenting smell for a few days. Thanks to Gordon Patrick Samuel for the hide.

Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!


Thanks Gordon Patrick Samuel for placing this cache.

Reasonably hot and definitely dry but not for long. This was wet and muddy when we were on our way to Alice. Not from the weather but from road words so we didn't stop and look for it. We wondered if it would be available considering the roadworks but all was good. Here comes the rain again. Thanks for the cache and bringing us here.

A quick and easy find this time as the roadworks have finished. Luckily we found it before the rain hit. Thanks for the cache.

Well we have ventured out to the Alice experience event and now it is over and it is time to head home.
However there is a few caches to find along the way.

This is one we found along the way as we headed back along the Binns and Oodnadatta tracks.

We obviously go with the Wet and muddy because Mrs Parrot has never ever seen Oodnadatta dry.

Made the mistake of camping on clay and the heavens opened up at 9pm which made walking around the camp in the morning very interesting.

Should have used the free camp ground in town.

A nice cache in a remote spot

Thanks for the cashe

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Heading to the Red Centre Experience Mega Event the back way and caching our way there. Travelling in the company of Skullracing as we will be heading back via the Simpson Desert with them

We've been out of reception for a few days so it's bulk log update time.

TNLN SL TFTC

Northward bound toward the Alice Springs Red Centre Experience, this was one of the cache stops we had with our traveling partners DazzPete. In fact they became more the stop, revive, survive pit stops which were quite welcome given some of the distances traveled each day.
Following our interesting stay at the Oodnadatta Caravan Park we continued our journey north whilst trying to keep our distance from a tag-a-long group which we had caught up to. Fortunately our visit wasn't too hot and with clear blue skies so no wet & muddy for us. Again it was great to see such a robust cache container for this environment. Thanks again to Gordon Patrick Samuel for placing this cache. Cheers [^]

On a road trip with Geo/rge to the Red Centre Experience at Alice Springs.
We travelled from Moe to Broken Hill to Cameron Corner to Marree to Marla then to Alice Springs.
This was the Marree to Marla section.

A quick find was made and the log signed.
Thanks for bringing us here.

[Scrat visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4376822)

TFTC Gordon Patrick Samuel

Ah yes !!
Another visit to this outback towne
Though I rarely stop for long ...
... I can't afford to [:o]

So with nothing to do but just drive slowly through,
I headed for the cache on the northside of towne.
A short wait roadside for the grader driver to clear the scene,
and I headed off to find me a cache

TFTC on me way to Marla today [^]

Found at 12:54 PM GAFF1 in the company of NurseHayley.
On a journey to Alice Springs. Full log to follow.
Thanks Gordon Patrick Samuel.

Found in the company of pprass on our way to the mega event in Alice Springs.

Thanks for the cache Gordon Patrick Samuel- great spot, quite a remote area.

A welcome stop after a wind camp at Oodnadatta. Following the Old Ghan trail, so leaving the Oodnadatta track shortly for Dalhousie. Thanks GPS.

Hot and dry was how we found it all today! A nice quick cache to find on our travels along the Oodnadatta track. We did this cache after doing the 6x4 circuit drive that leaves from town. That drive was so much fun to do, and included driving up a couple of sand dunes and across a couple of clay pans. On top of one dune there are amazing views down on to Oodnadatta. The pink roadhouse have maps that show the way! ……. eatmorchikin from Brisbane heading to Alice for the Easter caching event

Unfortunately there are some roadworks here so can't look and hope it is still here if we have a chance to return.